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Hitched Team To Box Car.

Friday, April 23, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Thursday, May 15, 1902

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 05/15/1903. Switch Engine Backs in on Side Track and Takes Horses Away. A Sterling man, owner of a fine driving team, has had one of the greatest experiences on record. Driving to one of of the town factories he had occasion to alight and go into […]

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Horses

Friday, April 23, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 3, 1903

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 07/03/1903.      William Biddie Williams of Philadelphia, one of the ushers in the recent Hanna-McCormick wedding and formerly of Yale, stopped a runaway horse in Sheridan road, Chicago, and saved children in its path.

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Horse and Boar.

Saturday, April 17, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun on Friday, September 17, 1897

Published in The Waukegan Daily-Sun on September 17, 1897.      A desperate fight between a horse and a boar, which resulted in the death of both animals, is reported from the county line eighteen miles north of Warsaw, Ind. The animals were on the farm of Arthur Munson and got together in a field, when […]

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Fattening Hogs On Horse Flesh.

Saturday, April 17, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 21, 1894

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on December 21, 1894.      P. W. Schenck, a New York banker who has interests in Montana, told of a rancher buying 1,000 range horses in Fergus County, Montana, for $3 a head. He says that the man who bought them slaughtered them, after which he boiled the […]

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Pigs

Saturday, April 17, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 1, 1895

Published in The Lake County Independent on March 1, 1895.      An unheard-of procedure on the part of feeders of swine is being practiced by some farmers around Bowen. They are buying plug horses and feeding them to hogs. John Mark has fed to his hogs about sixty-horses, and Jess Find, another hog raiser, has […]

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Street Travel

Thursday, April 15, 2010
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on Sunday, June 22, 1879

Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on June 22, 1879 Dangers to Life and Limb incident to the Highway. Proportionately More Killed and Wounded than on Railroads. In Seven Weeks 59 Runaways, 44 Persons Injured, and five Killed.      Few people have any conception of the infinite risk and danger to which are subject from […]

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Horse Beats Off Wolves.

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 1, 1901

       Details of a ferocious attack of a pack of wolves upon Linley, the 12-year-old son of F. M. Bane, a tenant farmer living near the Kansas line, reached Mattoon the other day. Young Bane at dusk rode on horsrback to bring home the cows. As he passed a small grove fourteen grey wolves, […]

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